Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 19:54 UTC, submitted by JCooper
The Open Source Development Labs and Freedesktop.org announced the 1.0 release of the Portland common desktop interfaces today, less than a year after work started on the project. Portland was conceived last year at the first Desktop Architects Meeting in Portland, as a way of making it easier for ISVs to write applications for Linux.
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...is this going to be some sort of shared wrapper library? Or would KDE and GNOME people write their own set of APIs that match?
The next step, DAPI, will be a library on the application side, as well as set of D-Bus interfaces on the desktop side, which in turn can be implemented by the desktop environments usual service infrastructure or by additional "adapters".
The second approach is more likely the one used for older/current versions of the desktops, while directly implementing the interfaces will be more likely used for future versions
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2005-07-06
...is this going to be some sort of shared wrapper library? Or would KDE and GNOME people write their own set of APIs that match?
I know one more item on the call stack is not a big deal, but with the UI's becoming more complex and more graphical and dynamic, any little bit of extra code or time spent pushing and popping all sorts of junk just doesn't seem worth it. Pick a UI and be happy with its suite.